Improvement in coin-packages



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. TROUT, OE BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COIN-PACKAGES.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 181,545, dated August 29,1876; application filed June 28, 1816.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. TROUT, of Boston, of the county of Suolkand State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Coin-Package;and do hereby declare the same to be described in the followingspecilication, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-'Figure l is a perspective view of it, chargedv with coins. Fig. 2 is aside elevation, Fig. 3

an end view, Fig. 4 a transverse section, and Fig. 5 a longitudinalsection, of it. Fig. 6 is a view of the blank before being folded andeyeleted.

In making the package I first cut a piece of pasteboard or othersuitable sheet material'in the form, as shown in Fig. 6-that is, in theshape of a rectangle, a, with a series of three or other proper numberof extensions, b b b,

.an elastic band or loop, f, to slip around the package and hold downthe tongue.

The package so made, after having been charged with coins, ashalf-dollars for ine stance, is to have the tongue turned down' upon thecharge, after which the elastic loop is tobe slipped around the whole,it with the tongue serving to keep the coins in place in the package.

I claiml. As a new manufacture, the coin-package, substantiallyasdescribed, consisting of the tongue, Land the piece a, and itsextensions b, all arranged and combined as se't forth, the said tonguebeing provided witha fasteningband or elastic loop, as and for thepurpose specified.

2. The body-part of the package, as made of the piece a, and itsextensions b, arranged, applied, and secured together as set forth.

CHARLES F. TROUT.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, J. R. SNOW.

